Breakaway (From Those Chains)
(GUITAR INTRO)my aunt Jessie was cruelLord, she made me go to schoolall the timeit was killing meit was a crimecause I could not be freefrom the confinesof those chainsoh the river was deepbut the water looked sweetoh my, my, myI jumped right inyou know I triedbut I could not swimthru the darkness or the painnever thought I'd breakaway from those chainsnever thought Id' breakaway from those chainsnever thought Id' breakaway from those chainsnever thought Id' breakaway from those chains(short SLIDE SOLO)so I headed for the hillslet the danger break my willoh my, myin a landslideI was losing groundand there was no one but myself to blamenever thought I'd breakaway from those chainsnever thought I'd breakaway from those chainsnever thought I'd breakaway from those chainsnoo, no, no, I'd breakaway from those chains(SLIDE SOLO)breakaway from those chainsbreakaway from those chainsbreakaway from those chainsbreakaway from those chainsbreakaway from those chainsbreakaway from those chains______________________________________________________________________Lyrics are copyright 1976, John Dillon
